Fix corruption issue with dm-crypt on top of software raid5. Cancelled readahead bio's that report no error, just have BIO_UPTODATE cleared were reported as successful reads to the higher layers (and leaving random content in the buffer cache). Already fixed in 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@xxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2006-09-20 05:42:06.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2006-12-02 03:03:36.000000000 +0100 @@ -717,13 +717,15 @@ if (bio->bi_size) return 1; + if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE) && !error) + error = -EIO; + bio_put(bio); /* * successful reads are decrypted by the worker thread */ - if ((bio_data_dir(bio) == READ) - && bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE)) { + if (bio_data_dir(io->bio) == READ && !error) { kcryptd_queue_io(io); return 0; } -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel